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- From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Fights and blackbelt confidence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.172247.14946@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:22:47 GMT
- References: <memo.881091@cix.compulink.co.uk> <30324@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <C19zr4.4xA@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- >This is why I make it a point to myself never to be "obtrusive" until
- >I'm at least a 3rd gup. By obtrusive, I mean if someone says something
- >
- >While we're on the topic, I know blackbelts aren't invincible or
- >anything, but I think it's a confidence thing. I know that, personally,
- >after I had gone through years of training and had become a blackbelt,
- >I'd feel pretty good about myself and sure as hell wouldn't hesitate to
- >talk back to someone who was giving me a hard time. Now I'm just a
- >white belt, and when someone starts hassling me, I remain unobtrusive
- >and just take it, which I don't really like doing.
-
- So, what's wrong with taking it? Let the other guy get the ulcer. If folk
- can wind you up with mere words, then your ego is not under full control.
- There is no justification for fighting strangers. You have no idea of their
- ability or training. No matter how good you are, there is someone better.
- With the correct degree of deference, grovelling and general appearance of
- abject terror, you can usually defuse any situation. No-one has become
- damaged, especially not you, and you can feel smug in the knowledge that
- you could not only take the guy, but you can also outwit him.
-
- > As our instructor said, avoid a fight at all costs, but if
- >you have to fight, do what you must. I don't think I'd be egging him
- >on, but if someone started making rude comments about my best friend,
- >I'm not going to sit there and not say anything (as I do now. me wimp!
- >:). Any one else feel this way?
-
- NO, I dont. Someone good once said to me that violence is something to be
- avoided at all costs and excelled at if unavoidable. Being rude to your
- freind is NOT an irrevocable situation. Having said that, if I am out with a
- girl, I feel it my responsibility to ensure her safety. I do not however see
- it as my responsibility to insure her ego or her view of my machismo.
-
- Study cats. Cats are very wise in all things - like doing nothing if at all
- possible, and preferably in a warm place! They have reaxation and muscle
- tension down to a fine art, as they do combat strategy. A cat will always
- run if possible, but if cornered, will give it everything they've got.
-
- You cannot be cornered by words.
-
- So what's wrong with being a wimp? I am very proud of my wimphood. It is
- fighting talk to impune it. Choose yer window, sunbeam :)
-